1. Includes some actual changes in parent and affiliate
operations that could not be allocated because of incomplete information. For a
description of the sources of benchmark revisions, see appendix.

2. This line represents parents that established or
acquired their first foreign affiliate in 1994.

3. This line represents parents that sold or liquidated
their last foreign affiliate in 1994.

NOTE.Lines 6 and 16 include changes resulting from
parents or affiliates acquiring, establishing, selling, or liquidating parts of
their consolidated operations. BEA permits survey respondents to fully
consolidate their parent operations and to consolidate affiliate operations
that are in the same country and industry or that are integral parts of a
single business operation.